Machine learning approaches identify male body size as the most accurate predictor of species richness

Table 1 Coordinates of variable categories on the first and on the second dimension of the MCA (DIM1 and DIM2)

Variable category	DIM1 coordinates	Variable category	DIM2 coordinates
Small body size	− 0.813	Geographic range 4	− 1.274
High species richness	− 0.684	Little COI distances	− 0.821
Geographic range 5	− 0.655	Entelegynae phylogenetic rank	− 0.606
Haplogynae phylogenetic rank	− 0.519	Low species richness	− 0.338
Entelegynae phylogenetic rank	− 0.399	Geographic range 3	− 0.17
Little COI distances	− 0.065	Big body size	− 0.123
Large COI distances	0.055	Geographic range 5	0.111
Low species richness	0.624	Small body size	0.112
Geographic range 4	0.758	High species richness	0.37
Big body size	0.89	Large COI distances	0.684
Geographic range 3	0.925	“Orthognatha” group	0.708
Geographic range 2	1.398	Geographic range 2	1.077
“Orthognatha” group	1.452	Haplogynae phylogenetic rank	1.086

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